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simple living

Cash Only Budget {The Jars}

by Move to Portugal June 3, 2010 frugal living

Thank you for visiting Move To Portugal. If you subscribe to the blog by RSS feed you can get all the updates sent to your inbox or reader for free!I think I may have finally got to grips with cash budgeting …… {here they are, in the kitchen, minus two lids} I have four different [...]

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I never promised you a herb garden…

by Move to Portugal May 31, 2010 frugal living

I know it should be ‘rose garden’ but singing herb garden works well don’t you think!

So, this is my progress in growing things {I also have some mint outside in a bigger pot}. You have to ignore the lolly stick names as they went in after I planted and I just guessed which herb was which; perhaps you can help, does that look like the first signs of coriander in the first pot?

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Going Pescatarian!

by Move to Portugal May 26, 2010 simple living

I think the post title may give it away but I took a personal decision at the weekend to stop eating red meat and chicken; I will still be eating fish so that makes me a pescatarian {I had to look it up to see if that was the right word!}

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Making Banana Bread

by Move to Portugal May 17, 2010 simple living

This weekend I completed one of my very simple goals; I made Banana Bread.

This may not seem like much of a big deal, but I bought a loaf tin with the intention of making banana bread about five years ago……and it’s only now that I’ve finally made some; I can’t quite explain how significant it is [to me] that I feel my life has slowed down enough to want to bake.

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How we work that {monthly} budget

by Move to Portugal May 13, 2010 simple living

I try to make our monthly budget process as simple as possible, ie; one that requires little work. This is my current process, which I do once a month, in or around the eighteenth.

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The 80 Day Project Update

by Move to Portugal May 12, 2010 simple living

As part of my 80 Day Project I’m trying to…. Stop multi-tasking Eliminate non essential actions Slow down Live in the present ….and it’s not easy as I’m even multitasking by trying to stop all these at once! Inspiration and further reading: How NOT to Multitask at Zen Habits On My Mind at LobotoME Blog For free [...]

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Guest Post: The Compact, Buy Nothing New

by Move to Portugal April 28, 2010 simple living

Today I’m honoured to have a guest post from Non Consumer Girl, who in 2009, inspired by the San Francisco Compact, embarked on a journey to ‘Buy Nothing New’ for the whole year.